Re: [ubuntu-x] Please test new X server in precise-proposed

2012-04-20 Thread Bryce Harrington 
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:08:07AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday I uploaded a new X server to precise-proposed as a 0-day SRU.
> It contains fixes for:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/974887: Various touchscreen issues
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/930936: Xorg crashes after connect bluetooth
> keyboard
> 
> The release team has accepted it into precise-proposed, and said it is a
> likely respin candidate. They have asked for extra testing. If you are
> able, please enable the precise-proposed repository and upgrade to the
> xserver 1.11.4-0ubuntu10.1 to test.

I've installed it on a dell 10v mini netbook and spent about 10 minutes
poking the touchpad.  No crashes or other noticeable changes in
behavior.

It still has that annoying problem where the pointer won't move if a
second finger is touching the pad, but it's been like that for a few
weeks so not something caused by -proposed.

Bryce


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Re: [ubuntu-x] Please test new X server in precise-proposed

2012-04-20 Thread Robert Hooker 
I'm not able to reproduce either of the issues, but I haven't seen any
regressions from the past day using it on 4 machines at least.

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Re: [Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

2012-04-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas 
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Martin Pitt wrote on 18/04/12 08:14:
> ...
> 
> * We install some drivers (like Broadcom wifi) straight from
> Ubiquity now, which certainly makes sense for devices where there
> is no free alternative.

"Ubuntu uses third-party software to display Flash, MP3 and other
media, and to work with some wireless hardware." I wrote that sentence
in Ubiquity, but now we need to be more specific.

A team is working right now on letting you reinstall Ubuntu with
exactly the same software you had installed before. To do that, you
will need to sign in and download the inventory of software you had
installed before.

To sign in and download anything, you will need to have an Internet
connection. Unless you have Ethernet, mobile broadband, etc, this
means you need a working wi-fi driver.

You usually won't know that you don't have a working wi-fi driver,
unless Ubiquity tells you. So it needs to tell you specifically, "You
need to install this wireless driver to complete this task".

> For the others (e. g. NVidia) we pop up a notification and offer to
> install them. I'd like to walk through the current UI and discuss
> how this could be made more steamlined and less confusing (e. g.
> for NVidia it can potentially offer 6 different drivers for you!)
> 
> * We might consider merging the jockey UI functionality, which is 
> mostly a shallow GUI around "install that package" now) into 
> software-center, control-center, or something similar to the codec 
> installer. I'd again appreciate if someone from the design team 
> could participate in that (hello Matthew!).
> 
> ...

Here's a design I prepared earlier: Jockey would become an "Additional
Drivers" tab in a "Software & Updates" panel of System Settings.


(I need to update that design to incorporate feedback from Alex
Chiang. )

Questions to consider when evaluating that or any other design:


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Please test new X server in precise-proposed

2012-04-20 Thread Chase Douglas 
Hi all,

Yesterday I uploaded a new X server to precise-proposed as a 0-day SRU.
It contains fixes for:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/974887: Various touchscreen issues
https://launchpad.net/bugs/930936: Xorg crashes after connect bluetooth
keyboard

The release team has accepted it into precise-proposed, and said it is a
likely respin candidate. They have asked for extra testing. If you are
able, please enable the precise-proposed repository and upgrade to the
xserver 1.11.4-0ubuntu10.1 to test.

Thanks!

-- Chase

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